by Translator: BornToBe; Author: Ordinary Magician (平凡魔术师); Licensed From: 17k
Long Chen pushed his speed to his peak, practically leaping from mountain peak to mountain peak. However, he felt the sensation of danger behind him growing increasingly intense.
After rushing for six hours, he didn’t even know how far he had fled. But now he finally saw Yin Wushang a thousand miles away from him.
Yin Wushang was smiling sinisterly, and his speed was shocking. No matter how Long Chen tried to flee, the distance between them only shrank.
“You can’t run!” sneered Yin Wushang.
Long Chen didn’t reply and simply continued running. Right now, Yin Wushang was on his own, but he knew it was likely that Yin Qing was behind him. It was just that she was too slow and hadn’t appeared yet.
He already had no assurance of being able to beat Yin Wushang. If Yin Qing suddenly joined in their fight midway, then he really would die for sure.
So right now, he fled as far as he could. The further he got, the more advantageous it would be for him.
Seeing that Long Chen still hadn’t given up and was still fleeing, Yin Wushang ridiculed, “Long Chen, back in the monastery, didn’t you say some grand words? Something about how if I dared target you, you would exterminate my entire Yin family?
“Now, I’m not only going to target you, but I’m also going to tear you apart piece by piece. If you have any courage, then don’t flee like a little rabbit.”
Yin Wushang’s speed didn’t drop at all as he spoke. Long Chen continued to flee as fast as he could, only stopping after two more hours.
The instant he paused, a saber appeared in his hands, releasing a bloody light as it slashed down on Yin Wushang.
Chapter 531 The Power of Lightning Rushing
BANG!
Yin Wushang’s fist smashed into Long Chen’s saber. Long Chen was shocked to find that Yin Wushang was able to block him with just a single fist.
At the same time, a powerful force drove Long Chen back three steps before he could stabilize.
“Now let me see where you plan on running?”
Yin Wushang sneered, like a hunter looking at a rabbit with nowhere else to go. His gaze was filled with ridicule.
Long Chen narrowed his eyes. Yin Wushang was even more terrifying than he had imagined. A random blow of his fist was able to block his saber. That hadn’t been because of a cultivation technique or Battle Skill, but seemingly from some sort of strange energy.
“I really like your current expression. Where did that grandness from when you said you’d exterminate my family go?” asked Yin Wushang. He wasn’t in a hurry. In his eyes, Long Chen was a fish caught in his net and couldn’t run.
“I already said the enmity between us is over. Do you really want to restart it?” asked Long Chen.
“Hahaha, Long Chen, ah, Long Chen. You really are young. I feel sorrow for your stupidity.
“Who do you think you are? In front of an ancient family, you are just an ant. If it wasn’t for the support of the Xuantian Dao Sect, you would have long since been crushed.
“For you to say such nonsense, you really overestimate yourself. Did you think you could keep living after provoking an ancient family’s prestige?
“You’re wrong, and very much so. If you hadn’t insulted my Yin family, you wouldn’t even have the qualifications to be killed by me.” Yin Wushang suddenly raised his head and laughed disdainfully.
“It was clearly your family’s disciple that tried to kill me. Was I supposed to not resist? To just allow Yin Wushuang to kill me?” asked Long Chen.
“Of course. This is the cultivation world’s iron law: the strong are respected. Although Yin Wushuang wasn’t strong herself, she had a powerful family, and that is also a part of her strength.
“To be able to reincarnate within an ancient family is also a kind of strength. As for you, a lowly commoner with no background, no matter how great your talent is, it’s useless.
“In this world, there are many talented people; however, they all die prematurely. Why is that? That’s because they reincarnated in the wrong body.
“Without a powerful family or sect to protect you, geniuses are only there to be killed. Now you should understand: being low-born isn’t a mistake, but appearing in front of a high-born person is a grave mistake.
“The price of making this mistake will be your life. The only result in accordance with the rules of this world is that you will die. After you’re dead, remember, if you want to become an expert, reincarnate into a power like my ancient family,” said Yin Wushang.
“Reincarnate? I really am not good at that. It seems I’m only skilled at sending other people off to reincarnate.” Long Chen shook his head.
“Hahaha, even now you’re in the mood to joke. That just proves your stupidity has already surpassed my imagination.
“But that’s also good. Try to keep that mood. I want to see if you can still joke once I rip your heart out of your chest,” said Yin Wushang sinisterly.
Long Chen smiled and rested his saber on his shoulder. “Then we’ll have to see if you have that ability.”
“I know you should have the power to fight Xiantian experts. However, it seems you don’t know, in this world, cultivation base is not the only way to judge a person’s combat abilities.
“Just like how you could easily kill Han Tianyu, I can also easily kill Xiantian experts. If you treat me as an ordinary Meridian Opening expert, you’ll have committed an extremely grave mistake,” said Yin Wushang.
“Then let me experience just how strong you are.”
Long Chen’s divine ring appeared behind him. The red and orange lights spun in opposite directions, and endless energy poured into Long Chen.
Now he was truly using the divine ring’s power. The energy within him was like angry waves, causing heaven and earth to rumble. In the face of an enemy as powerful as Yin Wushang, he had no room to hold back.
“As expected, you really were concealing your strength. Not bad, not bad! But it’s not enough!” Yin Wushang was slightly surprised, but he still shook his head.
“Whether or not it’s enough is something we’ll only know after fighting!”
Long Chen took the initiative, charging forward and mercilessly slashing down with his saber.
“Even without fighting, I know you are nothing in front of me.”
Yin Wushang sneered and punched another fist to meet Long Chen’s saber. But this time, his fist was covered with runes.
BOOM!
Astral winds erupted, and the ground crumbled like a frozen lake that had been smashed by a meteorite.
Long Chen’s arm trembled intensely, and he was shocked to see that Yin Wushang hadn’t budged in the slightest. Furthermore, the ground around him was strangely completely fine.
“This attack’s not bad. Even ordinary Xiantian experts who activated their Xiantian power might not possess such power.
“Most surprising of all, you rely only on physical strength. I really want to know just what cultivation technique you train in for your physical body to reach such an abnormal level.” Yin Wushang’s eyes shone as he looked at Long Chen.
As the junior master of the Yin family, he was extremely experienced. He had seen countless geniuses, but he had never seen someone with a physical body as abnormal as Long Chen.
Just his physical body was able to fight against Xiantian powers. Yin Wushang felt an intense desire to learn Long Chen’s secrets.
He suddenly leaped into action, taking away the initiative and not giving Long Chen a chance to do anything.
Long Chen was surprised, but his movements didn’t slow and he once more slashed with his saber.
Yin Wushang’s fist suddenly turned into a claw, and he caught his saber with a single hand. Even with Long Chen’s reactions, he was still caught off-guard and couldn’t pull his saber back.
At the same time, Yin Wushang’s other hand stabbed towards Long Chen’s abdomen.
His hand was like a blade, and it was covered in complicated lines. Even before hi
s attack reached him, Long Chen was suppressed by the wind, feeling that it was hard to breathe.
He couldn’t help being shocked by Yin Wushang’s powerful Battle Skill. He was able to change attacks incredibly quickly, and he was definitely the most terrifying opponent he had met up until now.
Yin Wushang was smiling coldly. With his saber caught, Long Chen was powerless to resist. Right now, he could only give up on his saber and fall back. But once he lost his weapon, he would be like a tiger that had lost its fangs.
However, he was surprised to see that Long Chen’s expression was still calm, and he actually also sent out a palm to meet his hand, clearly attempting a head-on clash.
“Stupid.”
Yin Wushang sneered. He had bitterly trained in his family’s Seven Disappearing Cloud Hand, which had been his family’s strongest Battle Skill for countless years.
After training in it for so long, he had already reached the third level of mastery in it, and that allowed him to grab Xiantian weapons with his bare hands. If Long Chen dared face him like this, then he would be instantly blown to bits.
But just as Long Chen’s palm was about to collide with his hand, his palm became covered with thunderforce, and a crackling sound filled the air.
“What?”
BOOM!
The ground beneath their feet exploded, and the two of them blew back.
“The Lightning Rushing Hand really is powerful.” Long Chen was delighted inside. This mid Heaven class Battle Skill was truly powerful. His saber had been unable to do anything to Yin Wushang, but this palm had forced him back.
Previously, Yin Wushang had intentionally humiliated and looked down on him, not budging at all in the face of his saber. Even the ground beneath his feet hadn’t twitched.
“I didn’t expect you to have such a trick. Really not bad.” Yin Wushang shook out his slightly numb hand.
More importantly, a trace of Long Chen’s thunderforce had ended up invading his body, making him feel like his insides had been struck by a hammer. That startled him, as this was his first time encountering such powerful thunderforce.
“I don’t have just one trick.”
Long Chen snorted, and his saber began to rumble. It was suddenly completely covered in thunderforce and once more slashing at him.
Yin Wushang’s expression changed ever so slightly. He hadn’t expected Long Chen’s thunderforce to be condensed enough to be able to cover his weapon.
Ordinary lightning cultivators used their lightning blades as weapons. Those lightning blades were condensed from their spiritual qi, and while they were powerful, they had stability issues. They were easily broken by experts.
But transmitting thunderforce into a weapon was also no good. If they did, that would end up consuming a great deal of energy, and the thunderforce would still be greatly weakened in the process.
But Long Chen had still done it that way, and his goal was obvious. He was attempting to use his thunderforce to negate the advantage Yin Wushang had with his Seven Disappearing Cloud Hand.
He had no hopes that his thunderforce could kill him. But his thunderforce could invade through the smallest openings, and it could definitely cause some trouble for him.
BOOM!
Yin Wushang blocked Long Chen’s saber with a fist, but this time, he didn’t have it as easy as last time and was forced back several steps.
Obviously, blocking both Long Chen and his thunderforce caused him to lose some of his advantage.
“Die!”
Long Chen roared, and a wave of light erupted from his saber, attacking Yin Wushang.
Chapter 532 Bloodline Suppression
Long Chen roared, and his saber began to release a tide of red light, the light crashing down upon Yin Wushang.
“Hmph, just an insignificant trick. It still won’t let you escape your fate of being killed by me.” Yin Wushang snorted, and his eyes suddenly began to glow. Countless runes lit up over his hands as he charged at Long Chen.
BOOM!
Long Chen’s saber was blown back by Yin Wushang, and taking advantage of the opening, he smashed his other hand at Long Chen.
But what was different from last time was that Yin Wushang was already prepared for Long Chen’s thunderforce.
Long Chen’s gaze was icy. Yin Wushang was clearly trying to force him into a head-on exchange. He was most likely dissatisfied with their previous exchange.
Thinking of that, he was filled with battle intent. Since he wanted to try him, then he might as well help him out. He wanted to see just who was stronger in terms of power.
When he reached that point in his thoughts, he decided to put away his saber. Because Yin Wushang was empty-handed and Long Chen was unable to increase the distance between them, his long weapon would only hinder him.
He fully activated his thunderforce, and lightning runes instantly covered his hands. A crackling sound filled the air.
BOOM!
Long Chen’s fist smashed onto Yin Wushang’s fist. This one collision caused an immense explosion, and light pierced through the void.
Both Long Chen and Yin Wushang shook. Neither of them had had any advantage in that exchange and they were both forced back several meters.
“Your thunderforce is strange. It’s not the power of ordinary lightning.”
Yin Wushang was surprised. Just now, he hadn’t held back. Although it had looked like they were even, he had had to circulate his spiritual qi to eradicate the thunderforce invading his body.
That thunderforce was too terrifying, and it was actually able to ignore the defenses of his physical body. If his spiritual qi wasn’t so strong, he wouldn’t be able to block it.
As the Yin family’s junior master, Yin Wushang had vast battle experience with countless geniuses. But he had never encountered such odd thunderforce.
“Does saying that have any meaning?” asked Long Chen icily. His expression was still flat, but inside, he was incredibly shocked.
From appearances, it seemed Yin Wushang was not a brute strength kind of cultivator. But his full strength attack had only resulted in a draw. Even in front of Xiantian powers, Long Chen had yet to release such power.
Just what on earth were Celestials? How could they be so terrifying? He finally understood why Shui Wuhen had repeatedly warned him not to vainly think of battling across realms with Celestials. That truly was simply looking to die.
But right now, the two of them were like water and fire, and there was no leeway. Only one of them could leave here alive.
“Hahaha, Long Chen, could it be that you think just this little bit of power is enough to defeat me? You’re too immature.
“Today, I’ll let you see just what it means to come from an ancient family. In front of I, Yin Wushang, your pathetic pride isn’t worth a damn.” Yin Wushang smiled with ridicule, and then an odd character suddenly appeared on his forehead.
When he saw that character, Long Chen cried out inside: immortal character?!
Although his understanding of immortal characters was limited to what Yue Xiaoqian had translated from the Ethereal Crafting Secret Record, this character had been included in it.
That was the ‘Yin’ character.[1] Could it be that the ancient families had all descended from the immortal era? Otherwise, how could he condense an immortal character like this?
Furthermore, on his forehead, that immortal character was not just a character, but a powerful rune.
Long Chen could sense Yin Wushang’s blood beginning to rapidly circulate, and the sound of a river flowing filled the air.
He was shocked to see that without doing anything, the ground beneath Yin Wushang’s feet began to collapse. It was unable to even endure his terrifying aura.
That Yin character on Yin Wushang’s forehead gradually grew brighter, emitting an ancient aura.
Back in the Jiuli secret realm, Yin Wushuang had also activated her bloodline pressure to suppress him, but now that Yin Wushang had summoned out the immortal ch
aracter, the pressure was over a thousand times greater than Yin Wushuang’s.
Long Chen felt his own blood was starting to still, as if it was freezing.
“This is the suppression of an ancient family bloodline?”
Long Chen was appalled. He thought back to how in the monastery, a gaze from Yin Wushang could make a person’s blood rapidly flow, so fast that there was danger of a body explosion.
Now he finally realized why the ancient families were so arrogant. Their bloodline suppression truly made them superior to others.
Ordinary cultivators wouldn’t even have the strength to resist in front of them. Ancient families members could crush their opponents by relying on just their bloodline suppression.
Light erupted from the character on Yin Wushang’s forehead, as well as the rest of his body. With the support of that character, he appeared like a grand emperor looking down on Long Chen.
“Now you should understand just how laughable your thinking was, right? In front of an ancient bloodline, you low-born cultivators are just leftovers.
“As leftovers, you should just listen to the arrangement of the heavens and not resist. You should never have resisted back when Yin Wushuang wanted to kill you. If you had died back then, it would have been a blessing for you.
“But now, you’ve insulted my ancient family, and your death will no longer be the end of it. Not only will you die, but everyone by your side will die as well.
“Any of those ants who helped you resist my ancient family will be torn apart piece by piece. That’s just the will of the heavens. The dignity of the strong cannot be touched by the weak. Now you should understand how foolish the mistake you made was.
“However, there’s one thing you should feel relieved about. I’ll definitely let off those girlfriends of yours. Once they reach the Xiantian realm, I’ll take them in as my concubines. You can die content.”
Long Chen’s eyes narrowed, and he suddenly smiled oddly, his gaze icy.
“Are you sure you’ll kill me today? You won’t be killed by me instead?”
“I’m sure.” Yin Wushang laughed.
“Your confidence has no basis. I can tell you that not only will you not manage to kill me, but you will very likely be killed by me.